EDUBase Cloud publishes and maintains Android apps for parents, teachers, owners and QR attendance on Google Play. It also builds white-label parent apps and custom Android apps for school groups.
What does school app development in Pakistan involve?
A school app is only useful if it shows the same information the school office works with. An app built apart from the fee, attendance and exam records means double entry, late updates and figures that do not match what the accountant sees. The sounder approach is to build the apps on the school management platform itself.
EDUBase Cloud is built in Pakistan and has 14+ years in Pakistan's education industry. Its mobile work covers Android apps for parents, teachers, owners and attendance, including white-label parent apps for school groups.
Apps are only one part of the job. Someone must also publish them, keep them updated, secure the logins and help staff when they get stuck. A good education app developer should be able to explain each of these clearly.
Which apps does EDUBase already publish?
There are 4 free mobile apps on Google Play. Each is aimed at one role, so a parent is never shown staff screens.
- Parents App: parents follow their child's attendance, fees, marks, diary and notices, apply for leave, message the school and receive PTM invitations, logging in with a one-time code.
- Teachers App: teachers mark attendance, write the diary, run PTMs with voice notes, message parents and see their own attendance, notices and payslip.
- Owners App: the owner or principal sees today's P&L, attendance, collections and defaulters, approves salary changes and leave, posts announcements and oversees messages across all campuses.
- QR Attendance App: a free scanner that reads student and employee QR cards at the gate or in class, marks attendance in real time and notifies the parent.
- All of these are native Android apps. This page does not describe an iOS app.
What is a white-label parent app?
A white-label parents app carries your logo, colours and name on Google Play. It has the same feature set as the EDUBase Parents App, including push notifications for notices, messages, PTM invitations, challans and attendance.
This suits school groups that want their own name on the icon. Parents see one brand, while the school keeps working in the same web portal as before.
Can an education app developer build custom apps?
Yes. Custom Android apps can be built for gates, transport, libraries or field staff, and they talk to the same APIs as the portal. Publishing is handled for you and covers listing, signing, staged rollouts and in-app update prompts, run through a release console.
New features and options to meet an institution's requirements are added by the EDUBase team. For larger custom work, the requirements are written down as screens, rules and reports before any code is written, so the owner, principal and accounts staff agree on what will be built.
How are parent logins and school data protected?
Parents log in with a rotating one-time code sent to the registered mobile, so there are no shared passwords. Attendance tablets, sender phones and gates hold their own revocable device credentials, and all portal and app traffic runs over HTTPS.
Each school has its own separate database, so one school's records are never mixed with another's. Schools can also control what families with pending fees see in the Parents App through Parent App Privileges, which can warn or block features by months overdue. Fee details and contact us are never blocked.
What should you ask any app developer before signing?
Use these questions to compare developers, including us. Commercial terms for EDUBase are discussed with sales.
- Does the app read live data from your school system, or a separate copy?
- Who publishes the app on Google Play and who ships updates?
- How do parents log in, and can access be revoked per device?
- Can you restrict features for families with pending fees?
- Can the app carry your own name, logo and colours?
- Who supports staff after launch, and during which hours?
Standalone school app versus an app built on the school platform
| Criterion | Standalone app | App on the school platform |
|---|---|---|
| Data source | Often a separate copy that must be re-entered | Same records as fees, attendance and exams |
| Parent notifications | Needs its own link to SMS and attendance | Notices, messages, PTMs, challans and attendance push to the app |
| Branding | Depends on the developer | White-label option with your logo, colours and name |
| Updates | Handled separately for each app | New features and app updates ship regularly to every school |
| Parent login | Varies by product | One-time code, no shared passwords |
| Device access | Varies by product | Revocable device tokens for tablets, phones and gates |
Related
- Mobile App Development — Android apps for parents, teachers, owners and attendance, including white-label parents apps for school groups.
- Integrations: Bank, SMS, WhatsApp & Biometric — Bank fee collection with HBL, Bank Alfalah, Meezan, PayPro and KuickPay; SMS and WhatsApp gateways; QR, biometric and face devices.
- Training & Support — Live Google Meet training, module video playlists, in-app docs and an AI assistant, with WhatsApp and phone support in working hours.
- Parents app controls on edubaseems.com
- Student attendance on edubaseems.com
- Qr biometric attendance on edubaseems.com
- Communication center on edubaseems.com
- Owner dashboard reports on edubaseems.com
- Diary notices houses on edubaseems.com